Selaus tekijän mukaan kokoelmassa Vertaisarvioidut artikkelit (Peer-reviewed articles)

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    • Age at arrival, parents and neighborhoods: understanding the educational attainment of immigrants' children 

      Ansala, Laura; Hämäläinen, Ulla; Sarvimäki, Matti
      Journal of Economic Geography : 2 (Oxford University Press, 2020)
      This article documents how children of immigrants cope in early adulthood in Finland. We first show that, on average, they have dramatically lower educational attainment than children of natives do. This difference can be ...

    • Formative Experiences and Portfolio Choice: Evidence from the Finnish Great Depression 

      Knüpfer, Samuli; Rantapuska, Elias; Sarvimäki, Matti
      Journal of Finance : 1 (Wiley, 2017)
      We trace the impact of formative experiences on portfolio choice. Plausibly exogenous variation in workers’ exposure to a depression allows us to identify the effects and a new estimation approach makes addressing wealth ...

    • Integrating Immigrants: The Impact of Restructuring Active Labor Market Programs 

      Sarvimäki, Matti; Hämäläinen, Kari
      Journal of Labor Economics : 2 (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
      We examine the impact of restructuring active labor market programs for unemployed immigrants in Finland. Exploiting a discontinuity in the phase-in rules of the reform, we find that it increased compliers’ cumulative ...

    • Post-secondary education and information on labor market prospects: A randomized field experiment 

      Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Sarvimäki, Matti; Uusitalo, Roope
      Labour Economics (Elsevier, 2020)
      We examine the impact of an information intervention offered to 97 randomly chosen high schools on post-secondary education applications and enrollment in Finland. Graduating students in treatment schools were surveyed and ...

    • Secular rise in economically valuable personality traits 

      Jokela, Markus; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Sarvimäki, Matti; Terviö, Marko; Uusitalo, Roope
      Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences : 25 (National Academy of Sciences, 2017)
      Although trends in many physical characteristics and cognitive capabilities of modern humans are well-documented, less is known about how personality traits have evolved over time. We analyze data from a standardized ...

    • Social Interaction in the Family: Evidence from Investors’ Security Holdings 

      Knüpfer, Samuli; Rantapuska, Elias; Sarvimäki, Matti
      Review of Finance : 4 Open access (Oxford University Press, 10.09.2022)
      We show that investors tend to hold the same securities as their parents. This intergenerational correlation is stronger for mothers and family members who are more likely to communicate with each other. An instrumental ...

    • The Evolution of Social Mobility: Norway during the Twentieth Century 

      Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sarvimäki, Matti
      The Scandinavian Journal of Economics : 1 (Wiley, 2017)
      We document trends in social mobility in Norway using intergenerational income elasticities, the associations between the income percentiles of fathers and sons, and brother correlations. The results of all approaches ...

    • The Impact of Forced Migration on Mortality: A Cohort Study of 242,075 Finns from 1939–2010 

      Haukka, Jari; Suvisaari, Jaana; Sarvimäki, Matti; Martikainen, Pekka
      Epidemiology : 4 (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2017)
      Background: The stresses and life changes associated with migration may have harmful long-term health effects, especially for mental health. These effects are exceedingly difficult to establish, because migrants are typically ...

    • The local economic impacts of regeneration projects: Evidence from UK's Single Regeneration Budget 

      Gibbons, Stephen; Overman, Henry; Sarvimäki, Matti
      Journal of Urban Economics : Available online (Elsevier, 2020)
      We study the local economic impacts of a major UK regeneration programme aimed at enhancing the quality of life in deprived neighbourhoods. Our identification strategies include: a) exploiting the fine spatial scale of our ...